Some Pa. schools close amid threats, charges filed

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two Pennsylvania high schools have canceled classes amid threats a week after a gunman killed more than two dozen people in a shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school.

In suburban Philadelphia, Council Rock South High School is closed Friday after the district said it received a threat. One student was taken into custody.

Council Rock School District is headquartered in Newtown, a community with the same name as the Connecticut town where 20 elementary school students were killed a week ago. The shuttered high school is in nearby Holland.

In the Lehigh Valley, Emmaus High School is closed Friday because of a bomb threat. The district says it doesn't believe the threat is credible.

Police in suburban Pittsburgh say they arrested two teens after a pair of threats of a shooting at Hopewell High School on Friday. They were released to their parents.

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